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G.O.D. (Gaining One's Definition) Lyrics

Artist: Common
Album: One Day It'll All Make Sense

featuring Cee Lo

Common:After bein' 25 you know just trying to survive in the worldBout to have a little boy or baby girl. Who knows?Anyway just when you start gettin that little age and experience to youYou start thinkin about stuff...tryin to make the right movesSo bust it out this is what I was thinkin check it

Yo the education of the Lon chicka Lonnie LynnBegan, began with timeBein my bloodline is one with the divineIn time brotha, you will discover the lightSome say that God is Black and the Devil's WhiteWell, the Devil is wrong and God is what's rightI fight, with myself in the ring of doubt and fearThe rain ain't gone, but I can still see clearAs a child, given religion with no answer to whyJust told believe in Jesus cuz for me he did dieCuriosity killed the catechismUnderstanding and wisdom became the rhythm that I played toAnd became a slave to master selfA rich man is one with knowledge, happiness and his healthMy mind had dealt with the books of Zen, Tao the lessonsKoran and the Bible, to me they all vitalAnd got truth within 'em, gotta read them boysYou just can't skim 'em, different branches of beliefBut one root that stem 'em, but people of the venom try to trim 'emAnd use religion as an emblemWhen it should be a natural way of lifeWho am I or they to say to whom you pray ain't rightThat's who got you doin right and got you this farWhether you say "in Jesus name" or Hum do AllahLong as you know it's a bein' that's supreme to youYou let that show towards others in the things you doCuz when the trumpets blowin, 24 elders surround the throneOnly 144,000 gon get homeOnly 144,000 gon get homeOnly 144,000 gon get it baby

Chorus Cee-Lo:I've lived and I've learnedI have taken and I've earnedI have laughed, I've criedI have failed and I have triedSunshine, pouring rainfound joy through all my painI just wanna be happy with being me

Cee-Lo:Let me voice my concernSo many of my fellow brothers have given themselves a titleThat their actions didn't earnOur ignorance is in the same breath as our innocenceSubconciously, seeking to find an impressionable mind to convinceI've finally come to the realization why Black people in the worse placeCuz it's hard to correct yourself when you don't knowWho you are in the first placeSo I try to find the clue in youBut evidently, White folks know more Black history than we doWhy're we bein' lied to? I ain't know our history was purposely hiddenDamn, somethin' in me wanna know who I amSo I began my search, my journey started in churchIt gave my heartache relief when I started to understand beliefHustlin was like a gift spent my share of time in the streetsTaught me survival from this evil I'm just gonna have to deal withAnd I felt like a fool when I tried to learn it in schoolIt almost seemed like a rehearsal when the onlyScience and math are universalTakin elder advice, read the Bible, the KoranSearched scrolls from the Hebrew IsraelitesHold on, this ain't right, Jesus wasn't WhiteSome leads were granted with insightand it's all in the plan, but it took me some time to overstandHe still created with the imperfection of manSo, with followin' I disagreeBy no means have I forgotten or forgiven what's been done to me butI do know the Devil ain't no White man, the Devil's a spiritual mindThat's color blind, there's evil White folk and evil niggasYou gon surely find there's no positivity without negativityBut one side you gonna have to chooseAny chance to speak I refuse to misuseSo how can you call yourself God when you let a worldly possessionbecome an obsession and the way you write your rhymes andCan't follow your lessonIf a seed's sown, you make sure it's known, you make sure it's grownIf you God, then save your own, don't mentally enslave your ownIf you God, then save your own, don't mentally enslave your ownIf you God, then save your own, don't mentally enslave your own

Well, I've lived and I've learnedI've taken and I've earnedI have laughed, I have criedI failed and I have triedSunshine, pourin rainI found joy through my painJust wanna be happy...bein meBein me

Comments/Interpretations

by Johnny on 7/1/2008 3:09am"A rich man is one with knowledge, happiness and wealth"Sick quote!

by Joe on 7/8/2008 1:39amhe actualy said health. lol i love common too much to not know that was a mistake before i went back to the lyrics. and yeah dude be droping some sick rhyms

by Stevie on 7/15/2008 1:00amIllest hip-hop artist since the creator himself (Gil-Scott Heron).

by Megan on 1/2/2009 9:40pmCommon is sick! Real Hip Hop.. can't get no deeper

by ben on 1/11/2009 1:48pmwhy cant more rappers do stuff thats a little more meaningful, not all the time but at least occasionally. I'm not going to lie, i like to listen to some gangster rap every once in a while. common verses are so crazy

by Pete on 1/21/2009 7:23pmThats what is all about! Great! The boy from chi city shows the way again.

by Jura on 2/13/2009 4:24amHe is the one!what megan said is rightREAL HIP-HOP!

by Common-Sense on 2/16/2009 6:03pm'Our ignorance is in the same breath as our innocenceSubconciously, seeking to find an impressionable mind to convince'! Deep Lyrics from cee-lo. But yo commons on a different plateu to most rappers

by LoMarkidaVe on 4/24/2009 10:27am"I've finally come to the realization of why black people are in the worse place because it's hard to correct yourself when you don't know who you are in the first place

by Smooth on 7/18/2009 8:03amSick combo, Cee-lo and Common

by CHINKDAT NAYBA on 9/30/2009 2:53pmGREATESTR SONG EVER

by James L. on 6/24/2010 8:39amMy man Common dropping that knowledge. No better lyrics that deal with religion than this one.

by Lebogang Mawelela on 7/9/2010 9:46amI'm like a mad scientist,this music is too good.(feeds my intellectual capacity).Common,when are you coming to South Africa????

by Tinashe Masawi on 12/7/2010 1:25pmthese lyrics are deep . Worth an ear. Hip hop with meaningful content . Make you realise we got a few talented and brainy rappers

by wandile sobekwa on 5/9/2011 10:10amwell all i was to say is already said so thankx to you common my nigga u made it clear that we all bellive in one god and no one knwows which colour was god.

by Kali on 5/10/2011 10:59pmThe guy is nothing for than an idiotic, venom spewing, racist thug...

by Asafa Lafeat on 4/3/2012 1:12pmHer dreams always meant want they needed them to mean, what made them real was the action in between

by Nino from Los Angeles... on 5/2/2012 5:09amI respect common as a man. But there is ONLY ONE WAY, AND THATS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST ! And I know deep down inside all of you know it too. Jesus was rissing frum tha dead. Wut about them other false gods. Jesus is God, and he will return to judge tha world. People I come with Christ like love. Repent and recieve Jesus as tha Son of God Tha Father. Read tha Bible not tha quron. Stop being decieved common and people. Theres is only ONE LORD AND ONE FAITH ! Jesus died for our sins. Them other false gods didnt cuz they cudnt. Cuz theyre not tha ONE TRUE GOD ! U want real hip hop. then get sum LECRAE,FLAME,TEDASHI, JSON,TRIP LEE,PRO,SHOBORAKA,UPWORDZ,AMBASSADOR,and CROSS MOVEMENT. THeyre reppin THA ONE TRUE GOD,JESUS CHRIST...GOD BLESS U ALL, TURN TO THA TRUTH...

by DRVM on 6/8/2012 5:11pmCommon knows we (african americans) are the true israellites the bible speaks of. listen towhat he is saying yall must wake up